Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes.

Latest episodes of the podcast Varied Types by G. K. Chesterton

• 01 – Charlotte Bronte
• 02 – William Morris and his School
• 03 – The Optimism of Byron
• 04 – Pope and the Art of Satire
• 05 – Francis
• 06 – Rostand
• 07 – Charles II
• 08 – Stevenson
• 09 – Thomas Carlyle
• 10 – Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity
• 11 – Savonarola
• 12 – The Position of Sir Walter Scott
• 13 – Bret Harte
• 14 – Alfred the Great
• 15 – Maeterlinck
• 16 – Ruskin
• 17 – Queen Victoria
• 18 – The German Emperor
• 19 – Tennyson
• 20 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning